Powerful storms continue to pound central US states
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Pastor Dale Morgan
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Powerful storms continue to pound central US states
2011-05-26 17:01
AP
Bloomington - In storm-weary middle America, many people were counting themselves fortunate after powerful storms swept through the region for the third time in four days but apparently claimed no lives.
Dozens of people were injured, mobile homes were flipped and roofs were torn off houses when tornadoes and thunderstorms hit Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and other states on Wednesday evening.
In southern Indiana, neighbours used flashlights to check on each other and their homes and barns near Bloomington after powerful winds overturned two mobile homes.
Crews worked overnight to clear uprooted trees and downed power lines after a tornado touched down in a mostly rural area about 40km south near Bedford.
The extent of the damage wouldn't be known until daybreak, but residents expressed relief that no deaths were reported in the latest round of storms even though several homes were destroyed and more than a dozen people were injured, including three or four children.
"We're very fortunate," said Lawrence County Sheriff Sam Craig.
Tornado watches
Wednesday's storms followed a deadly outbreak on Tuesday in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas that killed at least 15 people. On Sunday, the nation's deadliest single tornado since 1950 killed 125 in the southwest Missouri city of Joplin.
The National Weather Service issued tornado watches and a series of warnings in a dozen states earlier on Wednesday, stretching northwest from Texas though the Mississippi River valley to Ohio.
By Thursday morning, tornado watches were in effect in most of Mississippi, northwestern Alabama and central Kentucky.
"This is just a wild ride," said Beverly Poole, chief meteorologist at the National Weather Service's office in Paducah, Kentucky.
Heavy rain, hail and lightning pounded Memphis on Wednesday night as a tornado warning sounded. There were no confirmed reports of tornadoes touching down.
Back in southern Indiana, tow truck driver Martin Poteat was in the parking lot of the Walmart on the south side of Bloomington when the storm struck, ripping a cart corral loose and sending it into his truck and spawning up a debris cloud.
25 injured
"Everything came up off the ground. Everything was just flying," he said.
Earlier in the day, as many as 25 people suffered minor injuries when a tornado damaged several homes and businesses in the central Missouri city of Sedalia. Officials said most were able to get themselves to the hospital for treatment.
"Considering the destruction that occurred in Joplin - being that we're in tornado alley and Sedalia has historically been hit by tornadoes in the past - I think people heeded that warning," Pettis County Sheriff Kevin Bond said. "And so, I think that helped tremendously."
- AP
Powerful storms continue to pound central US states
2011-05-26 17:01
AP
Bloomington - In storm-weary middle America, many people were counting themselves fortunate after powerful storms swept through the region for the third time in four days but apparently claimed no lives.
Dozens of people were injured, mobile homes were flipped and roofs were torn off houses when tornadoes and thunderstorms hit Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and other states on Wednesday evening.
In southern Indiana, neighbours used flashlights to check on each other and their homes and barns near Bloomington after powerful winds overturned two mobile homes.
Crews worked overnight to clear uprooted trees and downed power lines after a tornado touched down in a mostly rural area about 40km south near Bedford.
The extent of the damage wouldn't be known until daybreak, but residents expressed relief that no deaths were reported in the latest round of storms even though several homes were destroyed and more than a dozen people were injured, including three or four children.
"We're very fortunate," said Lawrence County Sheriff Sam Craig.
Tornado watches
Wednesday's storms followed a deadly outbreak on Tuesday in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas that killed at least 15 people. On Sunday, the nation's deadliest single tornado since 1950 killed 125 in the southwest Missouri city of Joplin.
The National Weather Service issued tornado watches and a series of warnings in a dozen states earlier on Wednesday, stretching northwest from Texas though the Mississippi River valley to Ohio.
By Thursday morning, tornado watches were in effect in most of Mississippi, northwestern Alabama and central Kentucky.
"This is just a wild ride," said Beverly Poole, chief meteorologist at the National Weather Service's office in Paducah, Kentucky.
Heavy rain, hail and lightning pounded Memphis on Wednesday night as a tornado warning sounded. There were no confirmed reports of tornadoes touching down.
Back in southern Indiana, tow truck driver Martin Poteat was in the parking lot of the Walmart on the south side of Bloomington when the storm struck, ripping a cart corral loose and sending it into his truck and spawning up a debris cloud.
25 injured
"Everything came up off the ground. Everything was just flying," he said.
Earlier in the day, as many as 25 people suffered minor injuries when a tornado damaged several homes and businesses in the central Missouri city of Sedalia. Officials said most were able to get themselves to the hospital for treatment.
"Considering the destruction that occurred in Joplin - being that we're in tornado alley and Sedalia has historically been hit by tornadoes in the past - I think people heeded that warning," Pettis County Sheriff Kevin Bond said. "And so, I think that helped tremendously."
- AP
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